Global health and Nursing

1. GLOBAL HEALTH CARE
A NUR S ING P E R S P ECT I VE

2. WHO & GLOBAL HEALTH
• World Health Organization (WHO) is an organization
under the United Nations (UN).
• WHO is “responsible for providing leadership on
global health matters, shaping the health research
agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating
evidence-based policy options, providing technical
support to countries and monitoring and assessing
health trends”.
• 98% of all the world independent countries are
members of U.N.
(WHO, 2014)

3. GLOBAL HEALTH CARE
• Involves provision of health care services around the
world.
• Health care systems varies around the world, until
recently U.S had most of the elements of health care
systems of other countries.
• Most wealthy countries, including U.S recently under the
Affordable Care Act provide universal health care.
(Shah, 2011)

4. GLOBAL HEALTH CARE
• Health is a human right, according to United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
(OHCR) and World Health Organization (WHO)
“The right to health is relevant to all states: every
State has ratified at least one international human
rights treaty recognizing the right to health. Moreover,
States have committed themselves to protecting this
right through international declarations, domestic
legislation and policies, and at international
conferences”.
(Shah, 2011)

5. GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
• WHO provides health system information for all its
members, including mortality rates, disease burden,
nutrition, and risk factors.
• WHO web site is available in six common languages;
Russian, Chinese, French, English, Arabic, and Spanish.
• WHO web site also includes access to contact
information for its representative in individual nations,
and regional representative.
(WHO, 2014)

6. GLOBAL NURSE
• As nurse to be a global nurse is to get outside of
your own confinements. Global begins outside of
your self.
• Understanding culture of the client, the facility, and
the society at large are critical in delivering
culturally congruent care.
• Culture of the client can easily be learned by
performing client cultural assessment and asking
questions, facility culture can be learned through
policy and procedure of the facility, the society
culture is best learned through culture immersion.

7. GLOBAL ISSUES & STATISTICS
• Health care access, over 1 billion people lack access to
health care.
• Intervention for non-communicable diseases, over 36million
people die yearly from non-communicable diseases.
• Intervention for children health and nutrition, over 7.5million
under 5 years die from malnutrition or some form of disease.
• According to WHO in 2008 alone, 6.7 million people died from
some infectious disease or catastrophe.
(Shah, 2014)

8. GLOBAL ISSUES & STATISTICS
• AIDs/HIV disease. Some 2million deaths from AIDs yearly, 2.7million
new infections, according to 2008 WHO report.
• 1.7million death from Tuberculosis yearly, over 9.4million new
cases yearly.
• Malaria causes over 225million illnesses yearly, and over 780,000
deaths yearly.
• 1.6million people die from pneumococcal infections yearly.
• Over 164,000 people mostly children under 5years die from
measles, although immunizations costs less than $ 1.00.
(Shah, 2014)

9. GLOBAL HEALTH RESOURCES
• Healthypeople.gov provide detail information
importance of global health to the health of U.S.
• WHO provides global information for its member
nations, it gives yearly reports of global issues and
current trends. WHO is among the major relief
organization in case of disasters, its also an Ideal
source for links with other non-profit disaster relief
organizations.
• Global health council is an organization aimed in
relief for developing countries, it provides
accessibility and links to research resources, and
information on global heath care policies.

10. RESOURCES
Global Health Council. (2013). Retrieved July 22, 2014, from http://www.globalhealth.org/
Healthypeople. (2014). Global health. Retrieved July 22, 2014, from Helthypeople.gov:
http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topicsobjectives2020/overview.aspx?topicid=16
Shah, A. (2011). Health care around the world. Retrieved July 22, 2014, from Global Issues:
http://www.globalissues.org/article/774/health-care-around-the-world
Shah, A. (2014). Health issues. Retrieved July 22, 2014, from Global Issues:
http://www.globalissues.org/issue/587/health-issues
WHO. (2014, July). Retrieved July 22, 2014, from World Health Organization: http://www.who.int/about/en/